Day life Quote by Gerd Gigerenzer

Innumeracy and pseudoscience are often associated, in part because of the ease with which mathematical certainty can be invoked, to bludgeon the innumerate into…

— John Allen Paulos

As every bookie knows instinctively, a number such as reliability - a qualitative rather than a quantitative measure - is needed to make the…

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

“People simply do not understand numbers, risk, or probability, and few things can make discussion between experts and laypeople more frustrating than this “innumeracy,”…

— Thomas M. Nichols

[Statistics] The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics.

— Evan Esar

Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty.

— W. Allen Wallis

Practically everybody (1) overweighs the stuff that can be numbered, because it yields to the statistical techniques they’re taught in academia, and (2) doesn’t…

— Charlie Munger

Numbers are the most certain things we have.

— Andy Rooney

“This idea that in order to make a decision you need to focus on the consequences (which you can know) rather than the probability…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“If we let go of worrying about risk we can more usefully focus our attention on figuring out which risks are crazy and which…

— Ben Hunt-Davis

“The difficulties of statistical thinking contribute to the main theme of Part 3, which describes a puzzling limitation of our mind: our excessive confidence…

— Daniel Kahneman

Think SMART - Specific, Measurable, Achieveable, Realistic, Timely.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.

— Marilyn vos Savant